Sylvester Stallone fans react as he compares Donald Trump to Rocky Balboa

The 78-year-old actor, who portrayed Rocky successful the fashionable movie franchise, made his stance wide portion attending the America First Policy Institute Gala astatine Mar-a-Lago connected November 14.

Delivering a code astatine the event, Stallone hailed Trump arsenic a “mythical character” and declared that his triumph astatine the polls arsenic the benignant that cipher other “in the satellite could person pulled off”.

He told the room: “When I archetypal made Rocky, if you remeber the archetypal representation was a representation of Jesus and it said ‘Resurrection, AC Club’. I recovered a religion that had been converted into a boxing ring.

“So the representation pans down from Jesus connected to Rocky being deed and that infinitesimal helium was the chosen person, and that’s however I began the journey. Something was going to happen, this antheral was going to spell done a metamorphosis and alteration lives. Just similar President Trump.”

He continued: “We’re successful the beingness of a existent mythical character. I emotion mythology. This idiosyncratic does not beryllium connected this planet. Nobody successful the satellite could person pulled disconnected what helium pulled off, truthful I’m successful awe.”

The US prima took his appraisal 1 measurement further further by branding him “the 2nd George Washington”.

“And I’ll accidental conscionable this, and one mean it. When George Washington defended his country, helium had nary thought that helium was going to alteration the world. Cause without him, you could ideate what the satellite would look like. Guess what? We got the 2nd George Washington. Congratulations.”

Trump’s triumph has proved controversial, particularly successful Hollywood wherever the fig of those moving successful amusement publically endorsing the absorption person Kamala Harris outnumbered those who were vocal for their enactment for Trump.

Stallone’s words were met with a stunned absorption online from fans, with galore taking to societal media level X, formerly Twitter, to weigh-in.

“What the hellhole @TheSlyStallone.. you person 3 daughters. How tin you enactment idiosyncratic who shows thing but contempt and disrespect towards women?!” fumed 1 person.

“Lost each sympathy for Stallone, won’t adjacent rewatch Rocky this Thanksgiving,” remarked a second.

“Well, that conscionable ruined Rocky for me,” agreed another.